An interesting theory I read some time back on some thread somewhere was that kicking the 35 Russians out (72 hours to leave the country) and closing two Russian diplomatic facilities on 29 December 2016 was a pretext to prompt Russian Ambassador Kislyak to call (priming the pump so to say) to National Security Advisor designate Gen Flynn, knowing that the call was going to be intercepted, and then claiming there was a compromising conversation between Kislyak and Flynn (Logan Act set up), and then being able to withhold the actual transcript (the proof) of the recording due to protecting "sources and methods."
Smear and wrap-up smear, and then the "sources and methods" trump card (pardon the pun) to cover up the smear.
An interesting theory I read some time back on some thread somewhere was that kicking the 35 Russians out (72 hours to leave the country) and closing two Russian diplomatic facilities on 29 December 2016 was a pretext to prompt Russian Ambassador Kislyak to call (priming the pump so to say) to National Security Advisor designate Gen Flynn, knowing that the call was going to be intercepted, and then claiming there was a compromising conversation between Kislyak and Flynn (Logan Act set up), and then being able to withhold the actual transcript (the proof) of the recording due to protecting "sources and methods."
Smear and wrap-up smear, and then the "sources and methods" trump card (pardon the pun) to cover up the smear.